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Nice thread. At the time of disco, I was just a princess. You all pretty much covered the songs of the time but am wondering why no one mentioned Patrice Rushen or Teena Marie. I really wasn't up on Kraftwerk til the 80's I think when they did, "Tour de France" and "Numbers".

I remember that my Mom's best friend was a gay man who dressed in drag, named Paul. He was one bad bitch and most straight men thought twice before saying some ignorant shit to him. I still see him every now and then. I have never been raised to be homophobic and has had several friends over the years who was gay. I think it is sad that nowadays most black men seem to be homophobic but then it makes me wonder why, maybe because they themselves are curious and think they may be called on it, who knows. But I do miss those days, they were the most enjoyable even though I was young.

Nice thread. At the time of disco, I was just a princess. You all pretty much covered the songs of the time but am wondering why no one mentioned Patrice Rushen or Teena Marie. I really wasn't up on Kraftwerk til the 80's I think when they did, "Tour de France" and "Numbers".

I remember that my Mom's best friend was a gay man who dressed in drag, named Paul. He was one bad bitch and most straight men thought twice before saying some ignorant shit to him. I still see him every now and then. I have never been raised to be homophobic and has had several friends over the years who was gay. I think it is sad that nowadays most black men seem to be homophobic but then it makes me wonder why, maybe because they themselves are curious and think they may be called on it, who knows. But I do miss those days, they were the most enjoyable even though I was young.

I was a bit young during the disco era, having been born in 1966, but that didn't keep me from loving it. I've still got many 12" disco records. One of my all-time favorites was Amii Stewart's version of Knock on Wood www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm1kxdv-Xio. I have lots of fun gay albums from that era, as does my hubby So many times I've been asked why I keep 'em, considering I only play each one maybe once every 2 years, and that I should get rid of them. My answer is that if I did, and I ever wanted to play them again, like once every two years, where would / could I find them? I've got several Donna Summer LP's, including Bad Girls (double album), Anita Ward's Ring My Bell single, and so many more. I've even got a few cassettes from back in the day (1979) of what I used to call "my disco collection". Fortunately, I recorded them on high quality (at the time) TDK SA tapes on a nice tape deck, and they still sound about the same now as they did then. I discovered a treasure a few months ago - an immaculate B&O (Bang and Olufsen) turntable at a surplus sale for $8. This was THE one back then, before CD's. At over $800, there was no way I could afford it, as i was more interested in saving for a car (I wasn't quite 16). That, or the old Technics turntable, are just the thing for an evening / afternoon of take-me-back music fun.

In a lot of ways, I wish I had been older then. I loved disco but was WAY too young to go out to any clubs, not that there were any fun discos in Raleigh, NC. I'm sure if I had been older, I probably wouldn't be alive today. So, I do what I can to enjoy them... drag out those old LP's, 10" and 12" singles, cassettes, and open-reel tapes I made and enjoy. If I ever want to feel young, all it takes is a few of those old songs and I'm back in the '70's. What a fun thread, Brent!

Having had the experience of living through the Elivis Presley era, with Connie Francis and Anette Funicello...big hair, hair hoppers and then witnessing the ironed out staight hair era of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan which in the 60's turned into a pot and hash haze with the Greatful Dead , Mama Cass Eliot, and the Iron Butterfly, Janis Jophlin and the Mothers of Invention ...... imagine the horror generated by disco. My god its the end of an era....and of course it was. Kids wanted big hair again and lots of stylish tailored clothes and dance floors that lit up and pulsed to the music. Then it was punk...oh u know ....Sid Viscious types in NYC who thumbed their noses at the disco bunnies and wore ragged clothes from thrift shops.LOL.......It just goes around and around and around.I have my vinyl from ALL of those eras.

Having had the experience of living through the Elivis Presley era, with Connie Francis and Anette Funicello...big hair, hair hoppers and then witnessing the ironed out staight hair era of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan which in the 60's turned into a pot and hash haze with the Greatful Dead , Mama Cass Eliot, and the Iron Butterfly, Janis Jophlin and the Mothers of Invention ...... imagine the horror generated by disco. My god its the end of an era....and of course it was. Kids wanted big hair again and lots of stylish tailored clothes and dance floors that lit up and pulsed to the music. Then it was punk...oh u know ....Sid Viscious types in NYC who thumbed their noses at the disco bunnies and wore ragged clothes from thrift shops.LOL.......It just goes around and around and around.I have my vinyl from ALL of those eras.

The Disco Sucks movement was a resurgence of the angry-white-guy bullshit that seemed part and parcel with the rise of Ronald Reagan. I remember it only too well.

Brent(Who was there)

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Blessed with brains, talent and gorgeous tits.

The revolutionary smart set reads The Spin Cycle at least once every day.

I stood in line like every other faggot in Boston in the fall of 1978 to see Laura Mars. I remember the Mad Magazine parody, which was called "The Eyes Of Lurid Mess", which I had to buy although I'd long since traded Mad for Honcho.